Thread: $184B TX Public-Private Toll Road System Raises Outcry

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February 10, 2008

Proposal in Texas for a Public-Private Toll Road System Raises an Outcry
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
ROBSTOWN, Tex. — Leon Little’s farm here near Corpus Christi would not be seized for Texas’s proposed $184-billion-plus superhighway project for 5 or 10 years, if ever.

But Mr. Little was alarmed enough to show up Wednesday night with hundreds of his South Texas coastal neighbors to do what the Texas Department of Transportation has been urging: “Go ahead, don’t hold back.â€

[b]They make fun of us, but a whole bunch of people want to be Texans,â€

TXDOT's arrogance on the TTC is mind-boggling. Last month in a meeting outside of Houston (Waller, TX to be exact), the acting director told everyone these roads are not going to Mexico - they stop in Laredo & Brownsville. Every Texas I know is fighting this. Unfortunately, Texas Legislature meets only every other year and until Rick Perry is out of office, this will not go away.

So true..they hide or downplay the fact that the Reconquistas are what are placing demands for these roads.they need to build the BACK to MEXICO highway and finance it with taxes from remittances....

where are they coming from?
here's the data:

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